What Should We Talk About? with Jenny Yang

Can gentrifiers respect local culture?, Breaking family expectations, Growing up SoCal - Todo Chido Podcast’s Julyssa, Brandon, Stevie (S1E5)

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Friday, May 23rd, 2025 --Brandon is undercover Chinese?, Julyssa might disappoint her parents, Stevie humbled. by podcast love, and Jenny will never give up her SoCal hoodie-shorts-slippers uniform

It is Friday, MAY 23RD, 2025 and spring has sprung in Los Angeles. How am I this week? (IN A TERRIBLE BRITISH ACCENT) Like a fit Essex bird gettin’ absolutely wankered after she was slagged off in Love Island UK, I’ve been PISSED.

This is What Should We Talk About? With Jenny Yang, your weekly catchup time with smart and funny people who give a fck - probably too many fcks. We discuss topics submitted by our guests and you, the listener. Any topic! Current, old! Big, small! Nerdy, petty! Join in on the chat and suggest your burning topics. Leave a voicemail or text at my number: +1-323-250-3589.

Because you don’t want to feel like you are losing your mind and because we long for a better world filled with fun, love, joy, and cool shit. This is What Should We Talk About? With Jenny Yang

Today we have ALL THREE of the TODO CHIDO PODCAST based out here in Los Angeles. Welcome Julyssa, Stevie, and Brandon! Follow the TODO CHIDO Podcast. They’re doing fun and important things.(All Pod Links, Spotify, Apple, YouTube)

On today’s agenda we have:

1. Podcast Updates

2. Being first generation and breaking the cycle

3. 10 year-old girls shopping at Sephora

4. Google's new A.I. video generator VEO 3

5. True Crime stories (skipped)

6. A reality TV show competition for immigrants to get citizenship?

7. House of Reps passes the MAGA Murder Budget

8. Graduation speeches about Gaza

9. ACTION ITEMS

10. SHOW ME SOME LOVE

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Mama Yang on the pod, Bon Appetit still trash?, Being woke is a walking nightmare, Fujoshi life - Soleil Ho, Mama Yang (S1E4)

Soleil Ho on life after being THE food critic for the SF Chronicle, Mama Yang has a secret Japanese name, and Jenny Yang was taking down Bon Appetit before it was cool.

SEASON 1, EPISODE 4! If you’re a FREE SUBSCRIBER, you can watch this shorter 1 hour and 9-minute PREVIEW. It’s the same thing but with it’s own INTRO and OUTRO. You can also head to any podcast platform to listen to the FREE VERSION. But I will always save the FULL, extended cut only for Paid Subscribers here on Substack. http://jennyyang.substack.com

PAID SUBSCRIBERS will hear Soleil NAME HER NEMESES and see bonus video of Soleil, my mom and me getting yummy Cantonese Chinese food in Chinatown. Mmmm….crab! (And a dish I had never tried before involving steamed egg and mussels!)

It is THURSDAY, MAY 15TH, 2025 and it is a gorgeous day here in San Francisco. And how am I this week? Like the TV channel MAX calling itself HBO MAX again, I’ve been…a messy bitch.

This is What Should We Talk About? With Jenny Yang, your weekly catchup time with smart and funny people who give a fck - probably too many fcks. We discuss topics submitted by our guests and you, the listener. Any topic! Current, old! Big, small! Nerdy, petty! Submit a topic: Leave a voicemail or text 323-250-3589

ON THE AGENDA:

1. PODCAST UPDATES

2. Bon Appetit 2021 Reckoning and Where Are We Now in Food Media?

3. The death of alt weeklies and “weird” news

4. The politically very confounding Cybertruck in the Bay Area that sports a custom keffiyeh wrap

5. White South Africans accepted in America as refugees

6. East LA College Asian American / Ethnic Studies Professor Aki Maehara believes he was targeted in a possible hate crime (Professor Maehara’s GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/Victim-of-Hate-Attack-Aki-Maehara-Needs-Our-Help)

7. Medicaid funding cut for Tax Cuts for the Wealthy

8. Ben and Jerry’s co-founder Ben Cohen among protesters at RFK Jr. Senate hearing

9. TASTE TEST

10. ACTION ITEMS

11. SHOW ME SOME LOVE

12. RESTAURANT OUTING: R&G Lounge, San Francisco, Chinatown

Out in the wild we have, SOLEIL HO! Soleil Ho is a writer and former restaurant critic for the San Francisco Chronicle. Subscribe to their NEW media platform COYOTE MEDIA when they launch later this week! https://www.coyotemedia.org

Our next guest is a retired garment and factory worker and mother of three. She loves filling in adult coloring books with fancy colored pencils, the bright colors of fuschia pink and red for her flowers, and I’ve known her since I was born. Please welcome MAMA YANG! She’s got nothing to promote. Just staying healthy and tasting things her daughter buys her while managing her blood sugar.

ME? I was prepping for a one-hour keynote speech about comedy and mental health for the Mental Health Association of San Francisco!

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Racists too confident now, Not everyone needs to be a mom, Why Met Gala matters, 75 Hard, "Vice Signaling," Conclave IRL! - Jazmyn W, Mike Gauyo (S1E3)

SEASON 1, EPISODE 3!

Well hello! This is a shorter 49:15-minute FREE PREVIEW with it’s own INTRO and OUTRO. You can also head to any podcast platform to listen to this FREE VERSION. But I will always save the FULL, extended cut only for Paid Subscribers here on Substack. https://jennyyang.substack.com/p/racists-too-confident-now-not-everyone?r=1ngis

PAID SUBSCRIBERS will hear about our honest feelings about Met Gala Anne Hathaway and K-Pop Lisa looks and more Tyson Beckford is my new bestie update.

Friday May 9th, 2025 -- Jazmyn W is a single mom who's open to dating, Mike Gauyo did double-workouts for 75 days and drinking a gallon of water a day was harder, and Jenny can't cook w her chicken fat anymore :-(

It is FRIDAY, MAY 9TH, 2025 and this is What Should We Talk About? With Jenny Yang, your weekly catchup time with smart and funny people who give a fck - probably too many fcks. We discuss topics submitted by our guests and you, the listener. Any topic! Current, old! Big, small! Nerdy, petty! Submit a topic: Leave a voicemail or text 323-250-3589

Because you don’t want to feel like you are losing your mind and because we long for a better world filled with fun, love, joy, and cool shit. This is What Should We Talk About? With Jenny Yang

ON THE AGENDA:

PODCAST UPDATES

Being a Single Mom

The 75 Hard Challenge

Shiloh Hendricks making money off racism

American Pope: The Conclave Has Chosen

The Met Gala and why does it matter?

ACTION ITEMS

SHOW ME SOME LOVE

In the studio we have, JAZMYN W! Jazmyn is a stand-up comedian, actress and host with millions of followers and the ability to make anything funny. Check out her Patreon or Youtube membership to talk about INTIMACY. Jazmyn wants to shout out BAD ASH BAKES in Pasadena. Go check them out!

We also have MIKE GAUYO! Mike is a Haitian-American screenwriter whose credits include HBO's critically acclaimed series, INSECURE and Netflix’s record-breaking hit series, GINNY & GEORGIA. He also Co-Created and was the Co-Showrunner of AMC Networks/ALLBLK original dramedy, SEND HELP. Mike is also the founder of Black Boy Writes Media, which is home to the Black Boy Writes/Black Girl Writes Mentorship Initiative for aspiring Black writers. Mike wants to shout out people who mind their business.

ME? Here are my recommendations for the week: I want to feature indie creators because I believe we are at the beginning of a great boom in independent media: Shouting out Caroline Renard’s Short Film UNBRAIDED: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTnyqHYkjmc

Written and Directed by Caroline. Super funny. Hard jokes. It’s very young women figuring shit out, having a day — it’s giving One of Them Days.

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Hit that subscribe button if:

you care about building a better world filled with joy, love, comedy and cool sh*t.

you are tired of doomscrolling on social media and want a way to get a run-down of the week in news and culture without triggering your fight or flight response!

you want to get what you need as someone who cares about the world and then go touch grass.

you are as obsessed with food, self-care, building community, TV, film, pop culture, AND politics as I am AND you think it should all be in the same conversation.

you are freaking out because you hear about the wild news of the day, look around and everyone is just living their life like business-as-usual, so you’re tearing your hair out and think, “WHY ARE WE NOT TALKING ABOUT THIS?”

Follow Jenny Yang on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube!

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Jenny Yang is a standup comedian, actor, and tv writer who was named one of Variety's Top Ten Comics to Watch and has been featured at Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal, the San Francisco Sketch Festival, and Netflix is a Joke Festival.

Jenny is a former labor organizer who was born in Taiwan and raised in Los Angeles, and stars opposite Michelle Yeoh as an assassin in the Netflix action comedy-drama series, The Brothers Sun.

Follow her weekly podcast “What Should We Talk About?” on Substack: jennyyang.substack.com

Celebrate Asian Americans at Costco, Obsessed with protein, Viral bakery taste test, Sinners update, Be gay for healthcare, Worst people to eat with, Diet culture - Kim Chi, H. Alan Scott (S1E2)

(FULL EPISODES available to PAID SUBSCRIBERS at https://jennyyang.substack.com/p/celebrate-asian-americans-at-costco?r=1ngis)

Draq queen icon Kim Chi is a savory girl, pop culture expert H. Alan Scott is happy for Prince Harry's DGAF era, and Jenny believes Costco is the immigrant American dream.

It is FRIDAY, MAY 2ND, 2025 here in Los Angeles, and this week, like the Sinners IMAX ticketing sites, I am CRASHING OUT.

This is What Should We Talk About? With Jenny Yang, your weekly catchup time with smart and funny people who give a fck - probably too many fcks. We discuss topics submitted by our guests and you, the listener. Any topic! Current, old! Big, small! Nerdy, petty! Join in on the chat and suggest your burning topics. Leave a voicemail or text at my number: +1-323-250-3589.

Because you don’t want to feel like you are losing your mind and because we long for a better world filled with fun, love, joy, and cool shit. This is What Should We Talk About? With Jenny Yang.

Today we are focusing on FOOD AND EATING – what I live for. With a SURPRISE AGENDA ITEM AT THE END: Kim Chi brought us TikTok Viral bakery goodies to taste! On today’s agenda we have:

1. PODCAST UPDATES2. For APA Heritage Month: Do Frivolous Things!3. Cooking yummy food on a calorie deficit4. Terrible types of people to eat with5. Everyone freaking out about PROTEIN6. Single people and Costco7. Dump Tariff War8. Self-described “Career Panhandler” Brad Love is going viral for being conventionally attractive and shameless about asking for money on the streets of Palm Springs.9. ACTION ITEMS10. SHOW ME SOME LOVE11. SURPRISE AGENDA ITEM: Unboxing and tasting bakery goodies!

In the studio we have H. Alan Scott slash Sadie Pines. Writer, comedian, head pop culture nerd for Newsweek. Host of The Parting Shot podcast and co-host of Out on the Lanai: A Golden Girls Podcast. Subject of the documentary Latter Day Jew (on Tubi). Aggressively indoorsy.

We also have Saeng or KIM CHI. He is a make up mogul, drag queen, soon to be cookbook and young adult novel author. Get Kim Chi’s beauty products! They are soooo good. USE CODE “JENNY” FOR MY DISCOUNT! PRE-ORDER THE COOKBOOK, Kim Chi Eats The World! Get Donutella Hamachi, the young adult novel!

ME? Here are my recommendations for the week: George Carlin’s American Dream on Max, and Claim to Fame hosted by Kevin and Frank Jonas on ABC.

PAID SUBSCRIBERS SEE THE CONTINUED AGENDA TOPICS + TIMESTAMPS! Everyone gets to join the SUBSCRIBER CHAT!

If you are as obsessed with the intersection of pop culture, politics, and personal growth as I am, please consider becoming a paid member of my Substack for $8 a month or $80 a year ($6.67 a month). You will get:

Weekly newsletters of the podcast with access to the EXTENDED CUT OF EACH EPISODE (only available on Substack).

Complete access to all chats and comments, exclusively for my Substack subscribers.

Access to all breaking news analysis and personal essays.

jennyyang.substack.com

Hit that subscribe button if:

you care about building a better world filled with joy, love, comedy and cool sh*t.

you are tired of doomscrolling on social media and want a way to get a run-down of the week in news and culture without triggering your fight or flight response!

you want to get what you need as someone who cares about the world and then go touch grass.

you are as obsessed with food, self-care, building community, TV, film, pop culture, AND politics as I am AND you think it should all be in the same conversation.

you are freaking out because you hear about the wild news of the day, look around and everyone is just living their life like business-as-usual, so you’re tearing your hair out and think, “WHY ARE WE NOT TALKING ABOUT THIS?”

Follow Jenny Yang on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube!

IG: @jennyyangtv

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Email: [email protected]

Jenny Yang is a standup comedian, actor, and tv writer who was named one of Variety's Top Ten Comics to Watch and has been featured at Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal, the San Francisco Sketch Festival, and Netflix is a Joke Festival.

Jenny is a former labor organizer who was born in Taiwan and raised in Los Angeles, and stars opposite Michelle Yeoh as an assassin in the Netflix action comedy-drama series, The Brothers Sun.

Follow her weekly podcast “What Should We Talk About?” on Substack: jennyyang.substack.com

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Asian+Black SINNERS deep dive, teaching Ryan Coogler about Mississippi Chinese, Need a Hot Pope, Immigrant farm-to-table, THE STUDIO on AppleTV - Blakely Thornton, Dolly Li (S1E1)

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Thursday, April 24th, 2025 -- Blakely Thornton is ready to create some Met Gala red carpet moments, Dolly Li taught Ryan Coogler about the Chinese of the American South, and Jenny Yang has strong ideas for a hot Pope.

It is THURSDAY, April 24th, 2025 on another weirdly chilly day here in Los Angeles, and like a Freaky Friday Michael B Jordan in Sinners, I AM BESIDES MYSELF.

This is What Should We Talk About? With Jenny Yang, your weekly catchup time with smart and funny people who give a fck - probably too many fcks. We discuss topics submitted by our guests and you, the listener. Any topic! Current, old! Big, small! Nerdy, petty! Join in on the chat and suggest your burning topics. Leave a voicemail or text at my number: +1-323-250-3589.

Because you don’t want to feel like you are losing your mind and because we long for a better world filled with fun, love, joy, and cool shit. This is What Should We Talk About? With Jenny Yang

In the studio we have DOLLY LI! Documentary filmmaker & journalist. Now we can add cultural consultant on Sinners to that list! Host & producer of "Untold Story of the Mississippi Delta Chinese" on AJ+ (inspo for Sinners Chinese characters), Director of "Ghosts of Chinatown" on Hulu, Brooklyn native in LA; lived in Texas, Hong Kong, Oakland.

We also have BLAKELY THORNTON! (TikTok) Pop Culture Anthropologist and Podcast Host, Yestergays with Justin Sylvester debuting May 27th with Podcast One. They’ll be discussing the queer pop culture moments that happened PRE-internet! There’s not even a website to link yet!

On today’s agenda we have:

1. PODCAST UPDATES

2. Sinners! (SPOILERS AHEAD)

3. Can we get a hot pope?

4. Lack of Critical Thinking

5. The Studio on Apple TV

6. $5000 for women to have babies 🙄 

7. ACTION ITEMS

8. SHOW ME SOME LOVE

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Tuesday, January 21st, 2025

What Should We Talk About? with Jenny Yang

POEM: I love LA so much (AUDIO)

This is a SOLO episode of my revamped podcast via Substack. Surprise! I’m back! This episode of my new What Should We Talk About? podcast is just me. Consider this a soft launch because 2025 has already been super hard and I’m still not back in my Los Angeles house yet (it’s fine by the way and so is my family). (click here if you want to see the video version of my poem on Instagram — comment to say “I’m saying hello from Substack!”)

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